This summer, School of Music associate professor and conductor of Cal State Fullerton’s University Symphonic Winds, Gregory Xavier Whitmore, led the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble and the WorldStrides High School Honors Performance Series ensemble in concerts in Costa Rica and Australia. Whitmore is passionate about teaching — especially when it comes to teaching future educators […]
On May 22, thousands of guests were treated to Universal Orlando Resort’s first new theme park in 20 years when Epic Universe opened to the public. The park features five immersive and innovative themed lands — four based on Universal characters and films and one original concept. At the preview event one month earlier, Cal […]
Two of the College of the Arts Galleries staff, Class of 2025 grad Jennifer Lee and art student Riley Pettitt, were recently awarded a Getty Post-Baccalaureate Conservation Internship and the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship — highly competitive internships offered through the Getty Foundation. Lee and Pettitt were selected from hundreds of national applicants, marking a […]
The College of the Arts is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Professor of Art Joe Biel’s large-scale work “Veil” by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With a collection of more that 150,000 objects, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States and is dedicated to the exhibition and interpretation […]
On March 17, recent School of Music alum Isaac Visoutsy and current graduate student in music-performance, Margaret Wu, were chosen to audition for Stockton Symphony’s Fellowship Training Program. The one-year, paid fellowship program recognizes promising violinists from a variety of diverse backgrounds who are pursuing orchestral careers. “Isaac and Margaret are very diligent students committed […]
Cal State Fullerton School of Music faculty member Hermann Hudde researches the relationship between art music and modernity, focusing on a selected group of Latinx/American art music composers in the United States. Latina/o/x/American art and popular music, despite possessing a musical and cultural history, must constantly negotiate vis-à-vis Western modernity’s ethnocentric and epistemological hierarchies. Hudde’s […]
In spring 2022, the College of the Arts main art gallery and three student galleries showed their last exhibitions to the public in anticipation of the start of the multiyear, multimillion dollar Visual Arts Modernization project. Artwork was displayed in the Nicholas & Lee Begovich Gallery; Marilyn and Cline Duff Gallery; Leo Freedman Foundation Studio […]
Cal State Fullerton’s University Symphonic Winds, under the direction of School of Music Associate Professor Gregory Xavier Whitmore, represented CSUF as featured performers at the 2025 Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association Winter Conference in February. The 2025 conference offered over 50 conference sessions and concert performances to more than 500 attendees. The University […]
Cal State Fullerton Professor of Music Robert Istad and the University Singers have once again been invited to perform on stage at the prestigious bi-annual American Choral Directors Association National Conference March 18-22 in Dallas, Texas. Selected from hundreds of university choir submissions from across the country, the University Singers were one of five mixed […]
Jazz pianist, educator, composer, conductor and School of Music alum Mina Choi ’15 (M.M. music performance) will release her debut album “Stories” on Feb. 21. The recording features an ensemble of 12 CSUF alumni and two jazz legends, pianist George Cables and drummer and percussionist Alex Acuña. “Stories” was co-produced by Choi’s mentor, Grammy Award-winning […]